AOA News

The AOA's single-largest annual advocacy event in Washington, D.C., connects optometry's leaders with our nation's leaders. Learn more about the issues and how you can join, Sept. 28-30.

From statehouses to boardrooms, Main Street to Constitution Avenue, optometry's advocates are championing the message that it's time for a paradigm shift when it comes to vision benefit managers.

How the AOA and its volunteers are supporting their colleagues fighting unreasonable requests, downcoding, and claim denials.

The AOA's advocacy efforts yield gains on tax fairness and Medicare physician pay for doctors of optometry and successfully block harmful targeting of optometry and eye health and vision care.

AOA outside counsel delivers a cease-and-desist letter to VBM related to doctor-reported concerns of company business practices.

Regulators reminded prescribers that both federal rules, updated in recent years, require prescribers to provide patients with a copy of their prescription. The AOA offers compliance resources for practices to reference.